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Flying Fox Education Workshops

Flying Fox Education

Flying Fox Education delivers curriculum-aligned workshops and immersive experiences that help students embrace difference, understand disability, and build inclusive attitudes. Through authentic engagement, they learn empathy and create inclusive communities.

  • Vic

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Product type: Program; Presentation by an expert or speaker ; Incursion, excursion or immersive experience

Contact details

Flying Fox Education
ABN: 26 865 216 076

https://www.education.flyingfox.org.au/

education@flyingfox.org.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

Prospective users

Audience: Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Communities: Neurodiversity or disability

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

Flying Fox Education Overview

Flying Fox Education engages students in the dynamic and complex world of disability through curriculum-aligned (Personal and Social Capabilities Curriculum V2.0), evidence-based workshops and immersive volunteering experiences.

Our offerings are segmented into the following:

Primary School Workshops | Empower Youth to Include – Join Today — Flying Fox Education

  • Introductory Module: Own your difference

The Complete Series: Disability & Inclusion

  • Module 1: Room for Everyone
  • Module 2: Assumption Detectives
  • Module 3: Sensory Explorers
  • Module 4: More Than Words
  • Module 5: Inclusion Toolkit

Senior School Workshops | Empower Change Today — Flying Fox Education

  • Introductory Module: Own your difference

The Complete Series: Disability & Inclusion

  • Module 1: Adapt to Include
  • Module 2: Participation with Purpose
  • Module 3: Unpacking Assumptions
  • Module 4: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
  • Module 5: More than Just Words

Immersive Learning Experiences

  • Partnership Camp: A three-day, two-night getaway where school students bond with and support a young person with a disability, with the support, guidance, and facilitation of Flying Fox.
  • Social Experiences: term-long, weekly, 1.5-hour social experiences bringing peers with and without disability together providing immersive leadership opportunities and inclusion experiences for students.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor

Evidence

Flying Fox is grounded in evidence showing that sustained, authentic contact combined with structured education about disability is the most effective way to foster inclusion in schools.

Biggs, E. E., & Carter, E. W. (2016). Quality of life for transition-age youth with severe disabilities. Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 41(3), 138–152. https://doi.org/10.1177/154079...

Chae, S., Park, J., & Shin, M. (2019). Meta-analysis of interventions to improve attitudes toward people with disabilities. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 31(4), 479–502. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10882...

Freer, J. (2021). The Tripartite Intervention: Improving attitudes toward disability through education. Journal of Special Education Research, 45(2), 123–135.

Macmillan, K., Tarrant, M., Abraham, C., & Morris, C. (2014). Intergroup contact and attitudes toward disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 26(3), 291–321. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10882...

Rademaker, L., de Boer, A., Kupers, E., & Minnaert, A. (2020). The effectiveness of combined contact and information interventions on attitudes toward peers with disabilities. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 35(4), 543–558. https://doi.org/10.1080/088562...